Improved conveyer, to transfer blanks from a punching-fress



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JOSEPH H. BAIRD, OF OAKVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No. 90,914, dated June 8, 1869.

IMPROVED CONVEYER, TO TRANSFER BLANES FROM A The Schedule referred to -in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

and operation of the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of the attachment, and

Figure 2, a top view of the same. f'

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the several drawings.

My invention has for its object the collecting and arranging of the blanks, as they are cut by the press,- in continuous layers, so that quantities of them may be readily transferred, and fed to other machines in which the successive operations are performed,,l in manufacturing hinges and other articles iiom blanks or plates. To this end- My invention consists in the employment and use of a curved trough or guide, which is attached, in a proper manner, to the die-block or bed ofa punchingpress, as will be fully set forth hereafter.

TQ enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will describe its construction and operation. Y

In proper position with reference to the press, I arrange a curved trough, A, firmly bolted or otherwise connected with the floor or the frame of the press.

This trough, the form of which is clearly shown in the drawings, is attached, at one end, to the under improved Attachmentl metal side of the bed B, immediately beneath the die C, and at the other end is connected with an extension, A', represented in blue lines in the drawing Proper ledges or sides, a a, and a guide, b, are proM vided for holding the blanks in place.

The extension, A', serves as a table upon which the blanks are received, as they rise in the trough.

The bottom is inclined, to retain the blanks in place, and one ledge or side is removed, to enable the 4blanks to be readily removed, in the desired quantities at a time, in boxes, or otherwise transferred to the different machines by ,which the various operations necessary to the forming of hinges and other articles are performed.

As the blanks c are cut by the press, from the metal fed thereto, theydrop from the die into the space between the sides of the trough and the guide b, and as the operation of the press continues, the accumulated blanks in the trough, immediately under the die, press the foremost blanks up the inclined part of the trough, on to the receiving-table or extension A', from whence they are transferred to the other presses or machines, as before described.

Having thus fully described my invention, y

I claim the improved conveyer, of the form described, constructed, arranged, and operating substantially in the manner and for the purposes setforth.

JOSEPH H. BAIRD.

lVitnesses Gno. E. TERRY, S. W'. KELLoGG. 

